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Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. For the last two years, we've heard all about the drama and scandals of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's exit from the royal family, as the media, particularly in the U.
After Meghan Markle and Prince Harry sat down for an explosive interview with Oprah Winfrey , the family drama continued with alleged feuds between brother Prince William and Harry and their father, Prince Charles.
But before "Megxit," there was another royal couple who was exiled for their love. Wallis Simpson, a two-time divorcee, and King Edward VIII met and fell in love, and what followed was mass scrutiny and a media berating that led to their eventual exit from England and royal duties.
Sound familiar? Read on to learn all about Wallis Simpson and King Edward's love story and the sacrifices that came along with it. Wallis, an American socialite, had met Lady Furness, a fellow American, back in She and her husband Ernest received an invite to the house party when another couple became ill and could not attend. Simpson's husband at the time Ernest her second husband—she married Earl Spencer in attended the party, met the Prince of Wales and the rest is history.
Famed photographer Richard Avedon got an opportunity to photograph Edward and Wallis during a stay at the Waldorf Astoria. Avedon didn't want to take another bland, guarded picture of smiling members of the royal family, so he got creative.
After remembering that the couple were dog lovers, he told a long, sad story about seeing a taxi run over a pup. He then snapped the picture right as their faces looked the most concerned. The photo, which now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, is one of Avedon's more memorable works. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor made a high-profile trip to Nazi Germany during to see how the German people lived under Hitler's regime; they even stayed with the Fuhrer as his personal guests.
When tensions flared during the early days of World War II, the couple was still said to entertain fascist friends in their French home. Others thought that the Nazis were gleaning information about French defenses from the loose-lipped duchess. Some of the rumors were pretty steamy: People speculated that German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop had been Wallis's lover during the mids and sent her 17 carnations a day as a reminder of how many times they slept together.
The British intelligence community became so worried that Wallis and Edward were Nazi sympathizers that they decided to make a preemptive strike against any future leaks. At this, the first mention between them of abdication, Wallis burst into tears. She had fallen in love with Edward and was now all too aware of the sacrifice this would entail. Yet the thought of the vicissitudes of her suffering never seemed to register with him.
Surely, the greater act of love would have been for Edward to let Wallis go? Yet he did not seem to be able to see matters from any other perspective than his own. As far as he was concerned, he could not live without her and could not see that she might not be able to live with the consequences of his single-mindedness. Being blamed in perpetuity for stealing a beloved, popular king from his throne and almost destroying the British monarchy would prove to be a lifelong annihilating burden that Wallis was forced to bear.
Typically, Wallis later reproached herself—rather than Edward and his narcissistic neediness—for being deflected from her decision to leave England immediately. She still could not fully comprehend that Edward was not going to let her go anywhere.
Wallis also blamed herself for not realizing the true position of the king in the British constitutional system.
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